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Dozens of people wait to enter the U.S. at the Dennis DeConcini border crossing in Nogales, Sonora in September.

Pandemic restrictions at the Mexican and Canadian borders will be lifted in November for travelers who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, allowing travel by tourists and separated family members who've been unable to cross since March 2020. Read more»

A family requested asylum at the Dennis DeConcini port of entry in Nogales Saturday, but were rebuffed by federal officials who argued that Title 42 kept them from accepting people seeking protection in the U.S.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials will be able to continue using Title 42 to expel migrant families from the U.S. after a three-judge panel in Washington D.C. granted a request from the Biden administration to block a lower court's decision over the CDC policy. Read more»

A young boy in Nogales, Sonora is one of several hundred seeking asylum in the United States, waiting for their cases to be adjudicated under the Migrant Protection Policy.

President Biden has ended a pair of Trump-era programs that forced asylum-seekers to remain in custody while awaiting a hearing. Advocates had pushed to halt the PACR and HARP programs, calling them among Trump's "most horrific attacks on America’s long tradition of asylum." Read more»

A papier-mâché Statue of Liberty placed at the border wall in Nogales, Ariz., during a demonstration in August 2020.

More than a decade of data show that asylum-seekers and other migrants facing immigration hearings appear in court at least 83% of the time, with some rates as high as 96%. A new report challenges what one expert called a "pernicious myth." Read more»

A young boy in Nogales, Sonora is one of several hundred seeking asylum in the United States, waiting for their cases to be adjudicated under the Migrant Protection Policy.

Untangling the Trump administration's asylum restrictions may prove difficult for President-elect Joe Biden, who has to manage new DHS regulations — even as hundreds of people have waited some for nearly a year to seek protection in the United States. Read more»

Hundreds in Tucson demonstrate in 2017 for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama-era program that protected people who were brought to the U.S. as children from deportation for two years and gave them a work visa. DACA was ended by the Trump administration in 2017, however, legal challenges have kept the program alive.

A group of immigrants in New York have asked a federal judge to invalidate a July 28 memo that restricts DACA, and force the government to again process first-time applications, advance parole requests, and renewals under the terms of the original immigrant protection program. Read more»

Hundreds push for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama-era program that protected people who were brought to the U.S. as children from deportation for two years and gave them a work visa. DACA was ended by the Trump administration in 2017, however, legal challenges have kept the program alive.

The Trump administration moved to roll back Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which currently protects about 644,000 'Dreamers' from deportation, in a move that flouts a federal court order that required new applications to be accepted. Read more»

Two Nicaraguan men wait in Tijuana, Mexico as their asylum case moves through the use court system, as part of a new program, launched last year by Homeland Security officials called the Migrant Protection Protocols. Originally named 'Remain in Mexico' the program requires people wait in Mexico despite the dangers for migrants in border cities in northern Mexico.

The union representing U.S. immigration judges sued Wednesday, challenging a policy imposed by the Trump administration that blocks them from speaking or writing publicly about any topic. Read more»

A protestor during a demonstration outside of the La Palma detention facility in Eloy, Ariz., on April 10.

Advocacy groups filed an oversight complaint Thursday, arguing there is a "systemic failure" at Immigration and Customs Enforcement to protect thousands of detained migrants from coronavirus. Read more»

Protestors drive by and honk their horns outside of the Eloy Detention Center, a private immigration detention facility in Eloy, Arizona on Friday, April 10, 2020.

An ICE detention center in Eloy is the latest facility to have a string of complaints raised by detainees as COVID-19 fills hospitals and strains the nation’s health care system. Read more»

A microscopic image of SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing the COVID-19.

A 45-year-old immigrant from Guatemala detained at the La Palma Correctional Center in Eloy has tested positive for COVID-19, marking the first coronavirus case confirmed in an Arizona immigration detention center, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Read more»

Protestors in front of the immigration court building in Tucson in November protesting the deployment of troops along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Nearly 43,000 immigration hearings cancelled because of the government shutdown will mean a years-long "avalanche" that will clog courts for years, a federal immigration judge said. Read more»

The newly hardened Dennis DeConcini port of entry is visible from the line of pedestrians waiting to enter the U.S. through the Morley entrance in Nogales, Son.

The Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration's attempt to end-run a decision by a federal judge, and implement new rules barring asylum claims by anyone who entered the U.S. between border crossings. Read more»

The highway that leads to the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Sonora.

In a pair of decisions Wednesday, two different courts, one in San Francisco and one in Washington, D.C., ruled against the Trump administration's attempts to block people from seeking asylum in separate but important cases. Read more»

The highway that leads to the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Sonora.

Trump administration officials have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to OK a ban on asylum claims by people who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border without going through a crossing point. Read more»

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